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  Pirosmani (1969) directed by Giorgi Shengelaia

  17 December 2021

  This film is about the great Georgian painter – primitivist Niko Pirosmanashvili (1862-1918). An unknown, self-taught painter roams the streets of a city, painting his pictures.

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Dec 11, 2021

  11 December 2021

  * Farmers’ victory helps democracy survive | Arun Srivastava
  * Remembering Gail Omvedt | K Srinivasulu
  * Science changes – and so should rational behaviour | Stewart & van Rooyen
  * US Christian Right behind Mississippi abortion case | Cordero, Cariboni, Ferreira

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Dec 11, 2021

  11 December 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, December 11, 2021
  For much of the week gone by, news of events connected to India’s Armed forces & national security had prominence in the national media. The most high profile of these was the news of the death of 12 military personnel and one civilian in a Military helicopter crash in Cunoor on December 8, 2021. A high level inquiry by the armed forces into this serious accident in which India’s top military czar Gen Bipin Rawat passed away is (…)

• Hail To The Glories Of Corruption | TJS George

  11 December 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Mysterious are the ways of politics. Why did the BJP ask its time-tested leader Yediyurappa to give up the chief ministership of Karnataka? Why did it ask Basavaraj Bommai, inheritor of a rare tradition of corruption-free politics, to become the new CM?
  It cannot be that the BJP has suddenly turned against corruption. Notice that it paid attention to Father Yediyurappa’s request that his two beloved sons be given high positions in state and central governments. Notice (…)

• Farmers’ victory helps democracy and democratic institutions survive | Arun Srivastava

  11 December 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  The battle between the farmers and the Modi government has entered into a very critical phase. On November 19, Narendra Modi told the nation that he was repealing the three farm laws against which farmers have been on satyagrah for over a year. He even apologised. Obviously he resorted to this strategy to gain back the sympathy of the people and particularly of the farmers. But he was mistaken this was his admission of guilt.
  Though he and his protégés claim him to be (…)

• Anniversary of Babri Mosque Demolition Reminds of the Egregious Violation of Law and Resolve to Protect Constitution | S N Sahu

  11 December 2021, by S N Sahu

  6th December, is the solemn anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid. It was on this day in 1992 the it was completely destroyed and razed to the ground by those who spread hatred and venom in the name of Lord Ram and executed their diabolical design in complete disregard of law, Constitution and civilisational ethos of India characterised by coexistence of faiths and equal respect for all religions. In 2019 the Supreme Court in M Siddiq (D) and Versus Mahant Suresh Das & Others (…)

• Kashmir Youth - an Aspirational and Anxious Social category | Gull Mohammad Wani

  11 December 2021

  by Prof Gull Mohammad Wani *
  When the crescent is Born, It grows Every Night, and is Full Moon by Fourteenth You were a crescent My Boy You went down at Fourteenth —Ayaz Rasool Nazki (Kashmiri Poet) After August 5, 2019 abrogation of the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir state the managers of the Indian state seemingly show their concern to mitigate the sufferings of the youth who constitute the most anxious category of the population. One (…)

• The Problem of Unemployment | Sandeep Pandey

  11 December 2021, by Sandeep Pandey

  An advertisement of Bhartiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh proclaims, ‘Educated woman is our resolve, She is an alternative for golden future.’ However, an educated woman Shikha Pal is perched on top of an overhead water tank for more than hundred days at the height of about hundred feet aspiring to become a teacher in U.P. government run schools. She hold a Bachelor of Education degree and has qualified the examination conducted by the U.P. government and there are about 26,000 (…)

• To Promote Opposition Unity the TMC Should be Careful to Avoid Confrontation with the Congress | Bharat Dogra

  11 December 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of W. Bengal, is also a prominent, nationally recognized political leader of India whose reputation as a gutsy, gritty, courageous political leader capable of establishing a close rapport with people was strengthened greatly with a very significant and emphatic victory in West Bengal Assembly elections held in April. Although the BJP, by far the richest and most powerful political party of India at present, had left no stone unturned and poured in all its (…)

• SAARC: Regionalism and the Future Ahead | Santhosh Mathew

  11 December 2021

  by Santhosh Mathew *
  After the end of World War II, nations started to realize the benefits that came from regional cooperation. European Union after experiencing the economic and other benefits from regional cooperation tried to share it with other parts of the world. In Southeast Asia, Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) followed the same pattern.
  The South Asian nations were little late in seeking the advantages of regional cooperation, owning to the historical (…)